The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31
baseball Notes.


"Grace" Pearce is now umpiring in the Inter
national league.
Getzeins salary has been increased $50 per
month for good work.
Brooklyn will have at least five. if not six,
young players next season.
The Cuban Giants want to take the New
Ravens place in the Eastern league.
Polhemus the new Indianapolis fielder, got
but $50 month while playing with Haverhill.
The North Delawares defeated the North
Easterns by score of &c to yesterday.
Hecker is again pitching winning game.
About this time last year he won eleven sue
cesslye contests.
game was played yesterday by the Young
Comets and Lounge makers, the latter being de-
feated by score OF to L.
It will take six votes to adopt the percentage
l-plan in the Association, and three clubs are
known TO be opposed to 1t.
Pitcher Mckinley and center fielder Gilman
have been released by Toronto. Gilman was the
crack runner of the League.
The per cent of the Indianapolis club is now
higher than it has been at any time since the
first week of the present season.
Doescher's resignation was not accepted by
President Young Doescher resigned because of
the abuse Watkins heaped on him.
Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings, the Bos-
ton management, trying to buy up the
stocks now held by the other directors.
In releasing Jones the Cincinnati Club made
great mistake. Jones is now batting terrifcally
hard and fielding superbly for the Metropoli-
tans
A nine composed of the employees of the Rich
ardson Drug Company yesterday defeated the
Daniel Stewart & Co.'S club by score of IL
to Ia.
The .Mets" are trying to get either George or
Mattimore from the New Yorks President Day
thinks he will let Mattimore 60, but intends to
keep George.
Manager Horace Phillips has attributed Nor
ris' recent grea, games to the hot weather, which
at q r a N
the home plate.
Mulvey and Maui are in Philadelphia. and
will be in the West with the team. Maui is
troubled with boils, and Mulvey is used up ow
ing to q recent injury.
The Jenney Electric Company defeated the
Nordyke & Marmon club yesterday by
of 13 to 4. The batteries were Gobler and ken
and Badger and Cook
handed wonder" practieing on the grounds every
morning. He is but seventeen years old, and
bids fair to become fine pitcher.
A New Orleans pitcher named Sommer is try
ing TO induce the Cincinnatis to give him op-
portunity in the box. He has a left-handed de-
livery, which is highly spoken of.
The Hustlers defeated the Athletics in a close
and hotly-contested game yesterday afternoon
by a score of 10 to g. The batteries Hill
and Wright and Seidensticker and Robinson.
Larry O'Day, of Philadelphia an applicant
for a position the Association umpire staff.
He is backed by Chris Won der Abe, and if ap-
The receipts of the Pittsburg club have been
on e. third larger than they were in the American
association, and that. too when they down
at the bottom, while last year the Pitrsburgs
were a winning nine in the American Associ-
alton.
The Allentown players have, with one or two
exceptions, been engaged. Howe, short-stop,
ooes to Kansas City, where he will be paid 5000
per month. 0 Brien has signed with the Scran-
tons Williams and Cairs have joined the Ma
hanoy City club. Errick, who led the first base
men, is in Baltimore.
The total averages of the international League
teams Bat.ing-Stars,. 357; Hamilton, .346;
Utica, $780, Binghamton, 1927; Buffalo. .324;
Rochester. 323 Jersey City. .32l: Toronto, 3l9;
sSB jersey cy Newsre @ Bnf
falo, .919 Toronto 1908; Stars. .904 Rochester,
1902; Scranton, 900; .Binghamton, 1893; Utica,
1916.
1.-THE boys have struck their gait" said Mana
ger Mutrie before leaving New York for the
Western circuit, land are going to make
things rather lively for Chicago and Detroit on
this trip. They confident, now that Welsh
is all right again, and confidence in baseball
means great deal One thing is certain any
club that beats US now has to play very good
bali"
PHILADELPHIA Press: Credit is due to the
League tail-enders for having played the pref
test game of the season. Neither Indianapolis
nor Pittsburg credited with error. while
the only run scored during the game was scored
by Healy his own double and Seery's three
Dagger. Nine hits made off Calvin and
but six and one base balls off Healv. Such
games rare. and are generally witnessed by
a small attendance.
An ideal nine from that strong and rising as
ISOLATION, the International Lesgue: First base
Leblanc of Buffalo second base, Collins of Ham
ilton; short-stop. Phillips of Hamilton: third
base, Rainey of Hamilton; left field, O'Brien of
Jersey City; center field. Simons, of SYRIA
cuse, right field; Wright of Hamilton;
pitchers, Hughes and Stovey of Newark, and
Crane of Toronto; catchers. Murphy of Jersey
City and Kappel of Binghamton; substitutes
Kline and McGlone of Rochester
s.Well what luck / do have. anyway said
Brody a Detroit reporter. What's the mat
ter now2' why, in one of those New York
games / threw to third to catch man mapping.
Shindle got between him and the base so the
runner couldn't get back Doescher called the
q or tia grcund that Shiudla had inter